Irwin Levine
Songwriter, Composer
1938 – 1997
Who was Irwin Levine?
Irwin Jesse Levine was an American songwriter, who co-wrote the song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" with L. Russell Brown. The song was a world-wide hit for Tony Orlando and Dawn as it reached number one on both the US and UK charts for four weeks in April 1973 and number one on the Australian charts for seven weeks from May to July 1973. It was the top-selling single in 1973 in both the US and UK. In 2008, Billboard ranked the song as the 37th biggest song of all time in its issue celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100.
Other popular songs written by Levine include "This Diamond Ring", "I Woke Up In Love This Morning", "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose", "Knock Three Times", and "Candida".
Levine died at the age of 58, in Livingston, New Jersey in January 1997, from either heart or renal failure.
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- Born
- Mar 23, 1938
United States of America - Profession
- Died
- Jan 21, 1997
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on July 23, 2013
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